The lack of effort and it's ramifications

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I've read a book but as with all languages I don't understand some bits - it's the ...

you don't need to be an expert C/C++ programmer to be able to use Windows, but it doesn't hurt. You could always look into VB. I've seen at least one reasonble Windows tutorial on the web that got you going pretty quick without too much background in C/C++. Maybe if you look at something like that you can see the importance of learing the basics.

>I've read a book but as with all languages I don't understand some bits
So read about ten more books. You absolutely cannot learn a language by reading one book, most professional programmers have amassed a rather large library before their first job.